USS Chafee
_underway_off_Hawaii_in_March_2014.JPG) USS Chafee, 30 March 2014 | |
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Chafee |
| Namesake: | John Chafee |
| Ordered: | 6 March 1998 |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down: | 12 April 2001 |
| Launched: | 2 November 2002 |
| Commissioned: | 18 October 2003 |
| Homeport: | Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii |
| Motto: | Commanding the Seas |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2016 |
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| Class and type: | Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 9,200 long tons (9,300 t) |
| Length: | 509 ft 6 in (155.30 m) |
| Beam: | 66 ft (20 m) |
| Draft: | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW) |
| Speed: | >30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
| Complement: | 350 officers and enlisted |
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| Aircraft carried: | 2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters |
USS Chafee (DDG-90) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in United States Navy.
She is named for Senator John Lester Hubbard Chafee (1922–1999), a Marine veteran of Guadalcanal who also served as the Secretary of the Navy.
Chafee was laid down by the Bath Iron Works at Bath in Maine on 12 April 2001, launched on 2 November 2002 and commissioned on 18 October 2003. Chafee is an active unit of the Pacific Fleet and operates out of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; currently, Chafee is assigned to the Nimitz carrier group.
The construction of USS Chafee and USS Momsen, from initial steelcutting to sea trials, was documented in the Discovery Channel television special "Destroyer: Forged in Steel". The destroyers were not referenced by name, but their numbers were visible on their bows.
Ship history
Chafee left her homeport of Pearl Harbor 20 May 2005 for her maiden deployment with the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group (CSG). She returned to her homeport after a regularly scheduled deployment in support of the Global War on Terrorism.[1]
Chafee departed Pearl Harbor 9 April 2007, as part of the San Diego based Nimitz CSG and deployed to the U.S 5th Fleet (C5F) area of operations. On 1 June 2007, Chafee fired its main gun at Al-Qaeda suspects in the Puntland region of Somalia. The men were wanted for the 1998 United States embassy bombings.[2] Chafee returned home to Pearl Harbor on 22 September 2007, marking the end a successful 167-day Western Pacific and Middle East deployment.[3]
References
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.
- ↑ Honda, Sonia (5 May 2005). "USS Chafee Sets Sail for Maiden Deployment" (Press release). United States Navy. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
- ↑ "U.S. targets terror suspects in Somalia". MSNBC. 2 June 2007. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
- ↑ Bennett, Matthew; Honnick, Paul D. (25 September 2007). "USS Chafee Returns From Successful Deployment" (Press release). United States Navy. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
External links
Media related to USS Chafee (DDG-90) at Wikimedia Commons
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